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- From: rwa@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <rwa.721682174@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 19:16:14 GMT
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- jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams) writes:
- > [sorry, lost the attributation - my apologies to base poster]
- > > [what techies think; well stated I think]
- >While the quoted sentiments may reflect the opinions of a large number
- >of current or recent Sun users, they DO NOT reflect Sun's current market
- >strategy. Sun is going after the MIS market and probably couldn't care
- >less what several thousand engineers, scientists and assorted techies
- >think. They want their systems on the desktops of Corporate America and
- >they are doing what they feel will get them there.
-
- Those whom the gods would destroy they first make proud. I watched
- this happen to DEC; remember when DEC was this funky little
- engineering outfit that sold minis to engineers and scientists? I do;
- a PDP-8L was my first personal computer. Now I can't stomach them and
- their corporate datacenter attitude. I guess I'll get to watch it
- happen to Sun next.
-
- >If you want to hold on to 4.1.x, I'd strongly advise you to get a source
- >license and be prepared to provide your own support. Sun's newest HW
- >offerings do not even run 4.1.x at all. Genuine support for 4.1.x is
- >likely to go away Real Soon Now. Remember how fast support for the
- >Sun 3 went away.
-
- Or consider buying a real source-code 4.4 BSD(*) license for commodity
- [34]86 hardware. BSDi is offering a real deal IMHO, and their support
- and accesability have been for me (a very minor hacker) nothing short
- of phenomenal. 95% of my SunOS 3.5 and 4.1.x code has just rolled
- over onto BSD/386; some has needed minor tweaks, but nothing more than
- an hour or two.
-
- Just a satisfied customer (and longtime BSD bigot :). Nuts to $15,000
- workstations, and double nuts to the people who think that they can
- force the deathstar down my unwilling throat.
-
- regards,
- Ross
-
- (*) well, it isn't quite full 4.4; sort of in a grey area between 4.3
- NR2 and 4.4 would be most accurate.
- --
- Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca
-
- "One way of writing a book by a committee is to restrict its contents to the
- intersection of the various opinions; it is a technique that tends to lead to
- short texts of high quality, and has the advantage that in the case of a
- sufficiently diverse committee, it leads to no text at all." E. W. Dijkstra
-